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Building URLs In C# Without Concatenation Or Interpolation 15th August 2022
Using HttpClient To Post JSON In C# & .NET 1st August 2022
Fix - SSL Provider, error 0 - The certificate chain was issued by an authority that is not trusted 16th May 2022
About curl And PowerShell 10th May 2022
Tip - HttpUtility.UrlEncode vs WebUtility.UrlEncode 7th April 2022
Tip - Updating The Nuget Client 31st March 2022
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 30 - Simplified Argument Null Checks 21st December 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 29 - Writing Raw JSON Using Utf8JsonWriter 6th December 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 28 - JSON Serialization To & From Streams 29th November 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 27 - Extended Property Patterns 19th November 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 26 - Sealed ToString() In Records 12th November 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 25 - Hot Reload 9th November 2021
.NET 6 Release 9th November 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 24 - Parallel.ForEachAsync 8th November 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 23 - Nullable References 4th November 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 22 - LINQ Default Parameters 2nd November 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 21 - Constant Interpolated Strings 1st November 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 20 - Json Property Ordering 27th October 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 19 - Record Structs 21st October 2021
.NET 6 Release Candidate 2 Out 18th October 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 18 - File Scoped Namespaces 18th October 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 17 - New Timer - PeriodicTimer 12th October 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 16 - HTTP/3 Support 7th October 2021
Installing .NET 6 On Linux 7th October 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 15 - SOCKS Proxy Support 5th October 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 14 - Implicit Usings 1st October 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 13 - LINQ Improvements - Chunk 29th September 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 12 - Collection Count Performance Improvement 28th September 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 11 - LINQ Improvements - Range Support 24th September 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 10 - SDK & Runtime Version Checking 23rd September 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 9 - LINQ Improvements - DistinctBy 22nd September 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 8 - Control Of Serialization Of Object Cycles 21st September 2021
.NET 6 Release Candidate 1 Out 21st September 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 7 - Simpler Web Application Development 14th September 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 6 - Priority Queue 13th September 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 5 - Mathematics API Additions 10th September 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 4 - LINQ Improvements - MaxBy & MinBy 9th September 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 3 - TimeOnly Type 8th September 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 2 - Friendly To Newcomers 7th September 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - DateOnly Type 6th September 2021
Fix - .NET 6 Not Being Recognized After Install 3rd September 2021
Conditional Logic In MSBuild 12th November 2020
Getting Now Playing Information From WQXR In .NET 9th November 2020
Posting Messages To Microsoft Teams With Code 4th November 2020
Joining Strings - Part 4 : String.Format 1st July 2020
Joining Strings - Part 3 : StringBuilder 22nd June 2020
Joining Strings - Part 2 : String.Concat 15th June 2020
Joining Strings - Part 1 : The + Operator 28th May 2020
Decimals, Precision And Scale 28th April 2020
Controlling Creation Of .NET Core Projects 25th March 2020

30 Days Of .NET 6

30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 30 - Simplified Argument Null Checks 21st December 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 29 - Writing Raw JSON Using Utf8JsonWriter 6th December 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 28 - JSON Serialization To & From Streams 29th November 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 27 - Extended Property Patterns 19th November 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 26 - Sealed ToString() In Records 12th November 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 25 - Hot Reload 9th November 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 24 - Parallel.ForEachAsync 8th November 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 23 - Nullable References 4th November 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 22 - LINQ Default Parameters 2nd November 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 21 - Constant Interpolated Strings 1st November 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 20 - Json Property Ordering 27th October 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 19 - Record Structs 21st October 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 18 - File Scoped Namespaces 18th October 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 17 - New Timer - PeriodicTimer 12th October 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 16 - HTTP/3 Support 7th October 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 15 - SOCKS Proxy Support 5th October 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 14 - Implicit Usings 1st October 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 13 - LINQ Improvements - Chunk 29th September 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 12 - Collection Count Performance Improvement 28th September 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 11 - LINQ Improvements - Range Support 24th September 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 10 - SDK & Runtime Version Checking 23rd September 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 9 - LINQ Improvements - DistinctBy 22nd September 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 8 - Control Of Serialization Of Object Cycles 21st September 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 7 - Simpler Web Application Development 14th September 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 6 - Priority Queue 13th September 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 5 - Mathematics API Additions 10th September 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 4 - LINQ Improvements - MaxBy & MinBy 9th September 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 3 - TimeOnly Type 8th September 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 2 - Friendly To Newcomers 7th September 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - DateOnly Type 6th September 2021

API

Using System.Text.Json To Enforce API Logic 20th March 2021
Getting Now Playing Information From WQXR In .NET 9th November 2020

ASP.NET Core

Using IIS With ASP.NET Core 3.0 24th May 2020
Beware Of Controller Name Typos In ASP.NET Core Controllers 11th March 2020

Algorithms

Cleaner Code With Switch Expressions In C# 29th March 2022

Amazon

What Amazon AWS Local Zones Mean For ICT In Kenya 18th April 2022

Azure

What Amazon AWS Local Zones Mean For ICT In Kenya 18th April 2022

Buisness Of Software

Punched In The Face Or In The Stomach 19th July 2022

Business

On Career Progression 22nd June 2021

Business Of Software

Conmen, Charlatans And Software Developers 20th June 2022
What Amazon AWS Local Zones Mean For ICT In Kenya 18th April 2022

C#

Building URLs In C# Without Concatenation Or Interpolation 15th August 2022
Using HttpClient To Post JSON In C# & .NET 1st August 2022
Beware - Mapping Inherited Immutable Classes Using Dapper 25th May 2022
Fix - SSL Provider, error 0 - The certificate chain was issued by an authority that is not trusted 16th May 2022
About curl And PowerShell 10th May 2022
Adding Multiple Items To A HashSet In C# 28th April 2022
Tip - HttpUtility.UrlEncode vs WebUtility.UrlEncode 7th April 2022
Cleaner Code With Switch Expressions In C# 29th March 2022
Maintainability Of Code 11th March 2022
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 30 - Simplified Argument Null Checks 21st December 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 29 - Writing Raw JSON Using Utf8JsonWriter 6th December 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 28 - JSON Serialization To & From Streams 29th November 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 27 - Extended Property Patterns 19th November 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 26 - Sealed ToString() In Records 12th November 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 25 - Hot Reload 9th November 2021
.NET 6 Release 9th November 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 24 - Parallel.ForEachAsync 8th November 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 23 - Nullable References 4th November 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 22 - LINQ Default Parameters 2nd November 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 21 - Constant Interpolated Strings 1st November 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 20 - Json Property Ordering 27th October 2021
Saving Collections Of Primitives In Entity Framework Core 21st October 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 19 - Record Structs 21st October 2021
.NET 6 Release Candidate 2 Out 18th October 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 18 - File Scoped Namespaces 18th October 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 17 - New Timer - PeriodicTimer 12th October 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 16 - HTTP/3 Support 7th October 2021
Installing .NET 6 On Linux 7th October 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 15 - SOCKS Proxy Support 5th October 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 14 - Implicit Usings 1st October 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 13 - LINQ Improvements - Chunk 29th September 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 12 - Collection Count Performance Improvement 28th September 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 11 - LINQ Improvements - Range Support 24th September 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 10 - SDK & Runtime Version Checking 23rd September 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 9 - LINQ Improvements - DistinctBy 22nd September 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 8 - Control Of Serialization Of Object Cycles 21st September 2021
.NET 6 Release Candidate 1 Out 21st September 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 7 - Simpler Web Application Development 14th September 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 6 - Priority Queue 13th September 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 5 - Mathematics API Additions 10th September 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 4 - LINQ Improvements - MaxBy & MinBy 9th September 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 3 - TimeOnly Type 8th September 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 2 - Friendly To Newcomers 7th September 2021
30 Days Of .NET 6 - DateOnly Type 6th September 2021
Tip - Get Current Date In C# 7th August 2021
Reducing Bugs And Improving Maintainability Through Better Domain Design 29th July 2021
Tip - TimeSpan Minutes vs TotalMinutes 11th June 2021
About Default Interface Impementations 24th May 2021
The Other Integer Types 24th May 2021
Fix For The string argument propertyNames cannot be empty 25th April 2021
Fix For Cannot use LINQ in MatchCollection Regex with .NET Standard 2 10th March 2021
Handling Null And Empty Strings With System.Text.Json 9th March 2021
Inheritance In Business Logic Is Likely A Code Smell - Part 1 6th March 2021
Handling Exceptions With Refit 28th February 2021
Fix - error CS8805 Program using top-level statements must be an executable 10th February 2021
Improving HttpClient Requests 21st December 2020
Beware of HttpClient Header Validations 14th December 2020
Remote Debugging In VS Code 3rd December 2020
HTTP Redirects Using HttpClient 23rd November 2020
Refactoring With Records In C# 21st November 2020
Getting Now Playing Information From WQXR In .NET 9th November 2020
Posting Messages To Microsoft Teams With Code 4th November 2020
Disable SSL Certificate Validation In .NET 31st October 2020
Querying & Extracing Data From YouTrack 30th October 2020
Count vs Length vs Any - Checking Collection Emptiness 14th April 2020
Properties Under The Hood 10th April 2020
Arguments Handling Across Paradigms 5th April 2020
Fun With Tuples In C# 7 & Above 21st March 2020
AsReadOnly() May Not Be Doing What You Think! 11th March 2020

Career

On Career Progression 22nd June 2021

Dapper

Beware - Mapping Inherited Immutable Classes Using Dapper 25th May 2022

Design

Maintainability Of Code 11th March 2022
Reducing Bugs And Improving Maintainability Through Better Domain Design 29th July 2021
Using System.Text.Json To Enforce API Logic 20th March 2021
Inheritance In Business Logic Is Likely A Code Smell - Part 1 6th March 2021

Docker

Fix - Docker Error On Upgrade - aufs storage 25th August 2021
Fix - Docker For Windows Not Running 9th June 2021

Documentation

The Value Of Good Documentation 3rd July 2021

EasyNetQ

Deleting RabbitMQ Queues With EasyNetQ 11th March 2021

Entity Framework Core

Saving Collections Of Primitives In Entity Framework Core 21st October 2021
Fix For The string argument propertyNames cannot be empty 25th April 2021
Entity Framework Core - Unique Constraits vs Unique Indexes 18th January 2021
Fix For Entity Framework Core Not Generating Indexes & Constraints 14th January 2021
Fix For Entity Framework Tools Error 12th January 2021

Epiphanies

Goodbye Wordpress 25th May 2020
How Old Is Your Language? 5th May 2020
Should all bugs be fixed? 19th April 2020
What Is A Software Company? 19th April 2020

Excel

Fetching Table Data From Web Pages Using Excel 21st March 2022
Consuming REST JSON APIs From Excel 11th February 2021

F#

Beware - F# Doesn't Support C# Types Using Init Modifiers 2nd July 2021
Extracting Bytes From A F# String 25th April 2020
Arguments Handling Across Paradigms 5th April 2020
FizzBuzz In F# 1st April 2020
Using Nuget In F# Scripts 29th March 2020

Fails

UI Fails - Oracle VirtualBox 6.1 16th January 2021

Fixes

Fix - Python - Warning- Ignoring Invalid Distribution 25th May 2022
Fix - SSL Provider, error 0 - The certificate chain was issued by an authority that is not trusted 16th May 2022
Fix - Docker For Windows Not Running 9th June 2021
Fix For The string argument propertyNames cannot be empty 25th April 2021
Fix For Cannot use LINQ in MatchCollection Regex with .NET Standard 2 10th March 2021
Fix - error CS8805 Program using top-level statements must be an executable 10th February 2021
Fix For Entity Framework Core Not Generating Indexes & Constraints 14th January 2021
Fix For Entity Framework Tools Error 12th January 2021
Fix For pgAdmin Not Loading 11th January 2021

Gitlab

Gitlab HTTP Authentication With 2FA 31st May 2021

Google

What Amazon AWS Local Zones Mean For ICT In Kenya 18th April 2022

HttpClient

Improving HttpClient Requests 21st December 2020
Beware of HttpClient Header Validations 14th December 2020
HTTP Redirects Using HttpClient 23rd November 2020
Getting Now Playing Information From WQXR In .NET 9th November 2020

IntelliJ

Changing The Default Shell In IntelliJ To PowerShell 17th November 2020

Interop

Beware - F# Doesn't Support C# Types Using Init Modifiers 2nd July 2021

LINQ

Tip - Grouping Correctly In LINQ With VB.NET 2nd October 2022
Fix For Cannot use LINQ in MatchCollection Regex with .NET Standard 2 10th March 2021

Languages

How Old Is Your Language? 5th May 2020
Arguments Handling Across Paradigms 5th April 2020

Linux

Fix - Docker Error On Upgrade - aufs storage 25th August 2021
Jekyll, Ruby & OpenSSH 27th May 2020

Lisp

Arguments Handling Across Paradigms 5th April 2020

MSBuild

Conditional Logic In MSBuild 12th November 2020

Meta

Disqus Off 6th April 2021
Jekyll, Ruby & OpenSSH 27th May 2020

Microsoft Teams

Posting Messages To Microsoft Teams With Code 4th November 2020

NUnit

Better Assertion Testing With FluentAssertions 25th July 2021

Nuget

Using Nuget In F# Scripts 29th March 2020
Pinning Nuget Package Versions 28th March 2020

Office

Fetching Table Data From Web Pages Using Excel 21st March 2022

People

What Do You Actually Agree To When You Accept All Cookies 30th December 2020

Personal Development

On Career Progression 22nd June 2021

PostgreSQL

Fix For pgAdmin Not Loading 11th January 2021

PowerShell

Sending Teams Messages Using PowerShell 29th July 2021
Using Curl In PowerShell 19th May 2020
Touch In PowerShell 16th May 2020
Getting Your Internet IP Address 11th April 2020
Verifying File Hashes With PowerShell 19th March 2020
Copy SSH Key In Windows 10 9th March 2020

PowerUser

Fetching Table Data From Web Pages Using Excel 21st March 2022

Python

Fix - Python - Warning- Ignoring Invalid Distribution 25th May 2022

REST

Consuming REST JSON APIs From Excel 11th February 2021

RabbitMQ

Deleting RabbitMQ Queues With EasyNetQ 11th March 2021

Records

Refactoring With Records In C# 21st November 2020

Regex

Using Regex MatchEvaluators In C# 2nd February 2021

Ruby

Jekyll, Ruby & OpenSSH 27th May 2020

SQL

Using 'TRUE' and 'FALSE' For Bit Types In SQL Server 12th March 2022

SQL Server

Fix - SSL Provider, error 0 - The certificate chain was issued by an authority that is not trusted 16th May 2022
Using 'TRUE' and 'FALSE' For Bit Types In SQL Server 12th March 2022
Tip - SQL Server User Defined Table Types - Column Order Matters 24th November 2021
Decimals, Precision And Scale 28th April 2020

Software

What Is A Software Company? 19th April 2020

System.Text.Json

Using System.Text.Json To Enforce API Logic 20th March 2021
Handling Null And Empty Strings With System.Text.Json 9th March 2021

Teams

Fix - Unavailable Resource Error When Posting HTTP Request To Teams 13th August 2021
Sending Teams Messages Using PowerShell 29th July 2021

Testing

Better Assertion Testing With FluentAssertions 25th July 2021

The Business Of Software

If Your Grandmother Had Wheels - She Wouldn't Be A Bicycle - Its ALWAYS Harder Than You Think 12th March 2022
Standing In A Garage Doesn't Make You A Car - Why You Cant Just "Hire Developers" 10th February 2022
Coding Is Easy - Any Monkey Can Do It. Software, However Is Very Hard 17th January 2022
All Sons Are Handsome; All Daughters Are Beautiful - Pitching Enterprise Software 10th January 2022
About Software Bloat 30th August 2021
The Value Of Good Documentation 3rd July 2021
The Cost Of Adding Features To Software 10th June 2021
What Do You Actually Agree To When You Accept All Cookies 30th December 2020

Time

Be Clearer With TimeSpans 2nd February 2021

TimeSpan

Tip - TimeSpan Minutes vs TotalMinutes 11th June 2021

Tips

Tip - Updating The Nuget Client 31st March 2022
Tip - Get Current Date In C# 7th August 2021
Tip - Locating Commands In The Path On Windows 14th June 2021
Tip - TimeSpan Minutes vs TotalMinutes 11th June 2021
Tip - Making Use Of Windows Terminal Tab Captions 4th May 2021
Remember To Encode QueryString Data 2nd February 2021
Be Clearer With TimeSpans 2nd February 2021
Extracting Bytes From A F# String 25th April 2020

Tools

Gitlab HTTP Authentication With 2FA 31st May 2021

UI

Chrome UI Surprises 4th September 2020

UI Fails

UI Fails - Oracle VirtualBox 6.1 16th January 2021

UX

Chrome UI Surprises 4th September 2020

Under The Hood

HTTP Redirects Using HttpClient 23rd November 2020
Joining Strings - Part 4 : String.Format 1st July 2020
Joining Strings - Part 3 : StringBuilder 22nd June 2020
Joining Strings - Part 2 : String.Concat 15th June 2020
Joining Strings - Part 1 : The + Operator 28th May 2020
Count vs Length vs Any - Checking Collection Emptiness 14th April 2020
Properties Under The Hood 10th April 2020

VB.NET

Tip - Grouping Correctly In LINQ With VB.NET 2nd October 2022

VS Code

Remote Debugging In VS Code 3rd December 2020

WSL

Upgrading To WSL 2 10th June 2020

WebAPI

Consuming REST JSON APIs From Excel 11th February 2021

Windows

Linux Tools Packaged With Windows 25th May 2022
Jekyll, Ruby & OpenSSH 27th May 2020

Windows Terminal

Tip - Making Use Of Windows Terminal Tab Captions 4th May 2021

XUnit

Better Assertion Testing With FluentAssertions 25th July 2021

YouTrack

Querying & Extracing Data From YouTrack 30th October 2020